Dina Ezzat sets to decipher the ambivalent messages relayed by US President G W Bush during his State of the Union speech

Pakistan's policy toward the Taliban comes under scrutiny once again writes Graham Usher in Islamabad

While the rich elite jaunt off to Davos, Nairobi is the focus of another world still possible, writes Gamal Nkrumah

The recent rise of racism in Turkey claimed its most prominent victim last week, with the murder of a well-known Turkish-Armenian journalist. Gareth Evans reports from Istanbul